When Sarajevo Triggered a War

At the most famous spot in Sarajevo, where the Appel Quay once met the
Latin Bridge that crossed the gentle Miljacka River, there now stand
two footprints embedded in the concrete sidewalk. The bridge today is
called the Princip Bridge, for these two footprints mark the place
where Gavrilo Princip, a gaunt, sallow student of 19, stood and fired
the pistol shots that, as one historian put it, took seven million
lives.

Princip's 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the
Austro-Hungarian empire, put Europe on the way to World War I, but
Sarajevo has been a crossroads of violence for...